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J. WINTERPLOOD. OIL STOVE 0R HEATER.

No. 549,417. Patented Nov. 5, 1895.

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UNITED STATES JOSEPH VINTERFLOOD,

PATENT l OFFICE.

OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

OIL STOVE. OR HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 549,417, dated November 5, 1895.

Application led September 4, 1894. Serial No. 522,025. (No model.)

a burners are fed from a common reservoir and are provided with cups adapted to receive a supply of methylated spirit that operates to effect the preliminary heating of the burners to vaporize the oil in starting up the stove.

My invention has for its object to provide a vapor-stove of the type described with a plurality of cups, one for each burner, for

l containing the charge of methylated spirit,

so constructed and arranged that all the cups can be filled from one point and when filled can all be' lighted from one point; that will effect an economy in the fluid employed for heating the burners, and will form a central air-space for supplying air to promote better combustion than could be obtained by a single continuous cup or trough, and will cause the iiame of the methylated spirit to be confined to the burners.

To these ends my invention consists in the features and in the construction or arrangement of parts hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim following the description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this speciiication, wherein- Figure 1 is an elevation of a stove, partly in section, having four burners, said stove being shown arranged in a chamber under a boiler or heater known as a geyser, and similar in construction to that patented to me the 4th day of July, 1893, No. 500,987. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the stoves, howing the troughs or gutters connecting the cups or basins; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cups and their connecting-troughs.

Referringto the drawings, the reference-letter D indicates the oil-reservoir, from which rise the vertical feed-tubes d. On the upper ends of the feed-tubes d are arranged burners B, which may be of any usual and wellknown or preferred construction. The feedtubes and burners are arranged in a cluster, as shown, and are arranged within a casing E, upon which is supported the boiler, as clearly shown in Fig.` l of the drawings.

. Arranged and supported upon each of the feed-tubes d, beneath the burners B, is a cup or basin A, adapted to receive and hold the methylated spirit, and said cups are connected together by narrow troughs or gutters C.

The oil in the reservoir D is subjected to air-pressure in the usual manner, as by a pump, for example, and is thus fed up to the burners, and before it escapes therefrom is vaporized in a manner well known and common to stoves of the character described. In starting the stove in operation and before the burners have become heated the cups are filled with methylated spirit, which is then ignited and heats the burners, so that the oil fed to the latter is vaporized and issues therefrom in the form of gas which burns with an intense heat. By pouring the methylated spirit in any one of the cups all the cups are filled, the oil flowing from one cup to the,

other through the troughs C, andupon lighting the spirit in any one of the cups all the cups are lighted, as the iiame traverses the spirit contained in the troughs and travels from cup to cup. It will thus be seen that all the cups can be filled from a single point and that they may, in like manner, all be ignited from a single point, greatly simplifying the operation of filling and lighting the cups and rendering it unnecessary to remove the stove from its casing.

By making the troughs connecting the cups contracted in cross-section or of less width than the cups great economy is effected in the amount of fluid employed in heating the burners, as the troughs in practice are made of just a sufficient size to afford a means of communication between the cups.

By the described arrangement of cups and connecting-troughs a central air-space is formed between the cups and troughs for supplying air to the flame to promote better combustion than could be obtained by a single continuous trough, which, if the burners are arranged close together in a cluster, would necessarily have to be made wider than the connecting-troughs sh own in order to contain IOO a sufficient amount of fluid to heat the burners, The described arrangement of cups and connecting-troughs disposed under the burners allows of more eeonomical use of the! heating spirit, inasmuch as the bulk of the llame is Where it is most needed-viz., under eael1burnertl1e central air-passage causing the concentration of the flame from the spirit to act against the burners directly above. Tere it not for the unobstructed central airpassage, the flame from the heating spirit would burn eentrallyaiul would prevent aetua-l Contact of the llame with the burners.

The cups are shown as connected by troughs in square formation; but the cups may be connected to one another by troughs arranged in other Ways Without departing from my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In an oil stove, the combination With. an oil reservoir anda cluster of vertical feed tubes surmounlied by burners, of cups arranged on the upper ends ol:l said feed tubes beneath the burners to reeei ve an inllammable fluid for heating the burners, and narrow troughs of less width than said cups connecting the cups to permitall the cupstobe iilled from one point, and so that lhe lluid in all the cups can be lighted from one point, the said cups and troughs forming a central air passage, substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

In Witness whereof I have hereto signed my name this 7th day of July, ISM.

JOSEPH WIN'IERFLOOD.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE EWART, ARTHUR PAINSBURY. 

